[TheRealVille]

This is an old argument that you and I have gone over time and again. I am not disposed to support every parasite that says me too. The building trades can only be morally responsible for the actions of build trades membership. You don't understand the fight that transpired and the process that generated the world's finest craftsmen. My position is we barter the best in knowledge, character, innovation, productivity, and cooperation with our long list of employers/clients buildiing our nation's structures, from schools and hospitals and infrastructure, to the plants and mills of American industry. It's hard, it's dangerous and demands the cream of the crop to fulfill.

We're not politicians, and we don't have long enough coat tails for everybody who works with their hands to get on board with the big boys. The attempts of organized labor to do just that has predictably watered down our ability to negotiate. Heck, if everybody goes union where is the distinction that would command the elite level of wages and benefits we are so proud to have earned through sweat and determination? That might be over your head but, look at it like this, if everybody was a doctor, what would happen to the health care industry? (That is, in a world where presidents don't destroy the health care industry with amaturish governmental controls)

Apart from all of that. For a bunch of construction workers to pool their hard earned dues dollars, in an effort to influence state and federal legislators in a way that is unfairly favorable to themselves is unethical. And in the end, nets them a thrashing like they got up in Wisconsin. I call that buying one's own problems.

Are you in favor of right to work states? Romney thinks every state should be a right to work state.